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	List Price: $12.99 Our Price: $12.99 Your Save: $ ( % ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Canonical
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Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Canonical EAN: 0890655001220 Feature: Award-winning Linux operating system with complete set of open source applications for desktops, laptops, and servers Format: CD-ROM Label: Canonical Manufacturer: Canonical Model: 890655001220 Platform: Linux Publisher: Canonical Release Date: 2008-10-30 Studio: Canonical
Features Award-winning Linux operating system with complete set of open source applications for desktops, laptops, and servers Office productivity suite, Web browser, and email for your everyday needs Instant messaging, image editing, and various tools for accessing and managing your multimedia files Free security updates delivered via the Internet for 18 months on the desktop and server Comprehensive DVD with desktop and server installation, alternate installation (e.g., OEM install), plus all of the supported add-on software and translations for dozens of languages
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Editorial Reviews: Kubuntu is an operating system consisting of free and open source software. A part of the award-winning Ubuntu project, Kubuntu uses the KDE desktop. With Kubuntu you can surf the web, read email, create documents, spreadsheets and more! Kubuntu gives you the power and flexibility for business, education and home use. Kubuntu is easy to install, free of viruses and perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. The DVD will install in a number of widely-spoken languages, with support for many more available to download. Kubuntu is community developed, commercially supported and offers free maintenance updates after release. This version will receive updates for 18 months. When the next version is released, you can upgrade to it for free. This is a double sided DVD. One side is for x86 (or 32-bit) based systems including Intel Pentium, Intel Core and AMD Athlon. Choose this if you are unsure. The other side is a 64-bit version of Ubuntu which will run on AMD64 or Intel64 based computers (including AMD Athlon64 and Intel Core 2). Comprehensive DVD with desktop and server installation, alternate installation modes (e.g. OEM install), plus supported add-on software and translations for over 100 spoken languages. Office productivity suite, web browser and email for your everyday needs. Instant messaging, image editing and various tools for accessing and managing your multimedia files * A selection of server applications, including email and database servers and cluster management tools
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: It is dated release... current is 9.04 Comment: Ubuntu is great no question about it, but this version is dated and a current one is 9.04... Customer Rating: Summary: Great OS, but what are you paying for? Comment: Kubuntu 8.10 is a stellar operating system and is an official release from Canonical, as is Ubuntu. Kubuntu features the KDE interface as opposed to Gnome (which is included with Ubuntu). I find the KDE interface to be a bit more suited to customization than Gnome (IMHO) and a bit easier for thoce who are accustomed to windows to adapt to. My only issue with this offering is the price. Kubuntu is available free for download or on CD from Canonical. Previous offerings of Ubuntu at $19.99 included 90 days of unlimited customer support, which is a good deal for new users. This one is $12.99 but does not include support and offers nothing that is not available for free. The disc may ship faster I suppose, but still not as fast as the free download. Customer Rating: Summary: Finally - dummy friendly linux Comment: I'm a Linux hack who builds his own Gentoo environments, but when I finally deleted my last Windows partition, I decided to give Ubuntu a try as a second boot option. I was interested in seeing how far commercial distros had come. I was pleasantly surprised. I inserted the DVD and after answering a few easy questions I had a working system, complete with wireless NIC (even with proprietary drivers that work perfectly). It took less than 20 minutes to install a perfectly functional OS with all sorts of usefull apps, for practically free. One minor usability gripe. Installing WINE by default or at least popping something up to inform novices about WINE would help. Everyone has one or two windows apps they can't live without that will probably work alright in WINE. I know about it and had no problem installing it and using it, but it's going to be a key app for some, and guiding novices to it would be helpful. BTW I'm running National Geographic's Topo software within WINE with full functionality and no problems at all. So even their default build of WINE seems to be pretty good. I really think this puts Linux within reach of almost anyone with basic computer skills and a little willingness to work though small problems.